DR. J. D. HOOKER ON THE BORNEAN SPECIES OF NEPENTHES 423 
pitchers are usually covered with a short white fömentum, and the broad white velvet 
. band surrounding the narrow polished brown annulus affords a very marked vist 
The pitchers of the Sincapore specimen are (when dry) of a beautiful rose-colour blotched 
with purple. 
18. NEPENTHES MELAMPHORA, Reinwardt ; Miquel, Flor. i. 1072, cum syn. &c. 
B. lucida, Blume, Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 8. 
Hab. Southern Borneo (Korthals, Mottley). Also found in Eastern Bengal and Java. 
l have received Bornean specimens of this plant, collected by Mottley at Banjarmassing, 
on the south coast of Borneo, where it was first detected by Korthals. The originally 
described form grows at an elevation of 3000—5000 feet in Java. 
I take the East Bengal Nepenthes to be the same species; it was sent from that country * 
by Carey to Europe, and published by Graham in the * Botanical Magazine ' (t. 2798) as 
the Ceylon N. distillatoria, L. (from which it is very different). It has also been gathered 
by Griffith in the same place, and by Dr. Thomson and myself near Amwee, on the 
Jyntea Hills—the eastern continuation of the Khasia Mountains and north of Silhet, 
whence probably all the specimens were sent, as the plant and that particular habitat are 
well known to the natives of those districts. The figure in the * Bot. Mag.’ well repre- 
sents the Bengal plant in every respect ; but the dried raceme in Herb. Hook., from which 
the drawing was made, is much more tomentose than any specimens gathered by Thomson, 
Griffith, or myself, or by Korthals, Blume, or Reinwardt in Java. One of Griffith's 
Bengal specimens is in this respect intermediate between ours and those of the Edinburgh 
Gardens. Korthals’ figure is not characteristic, except of a small half-starved-looking 
_ form. 
I have a pitcher of what I take to be this species upwards of a foot long ; it was grown 
in Mr. Rollisson's Nursery. 
F 
$ V. Ascidia brevia, ore contracto, annulo lato creberrime sulcato, operculo parvo. 
14. NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA, Jack ; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 271; Miq. Flora, i. am 
cum syn. &c. 
. Hab. Borneo (Lobb, Low, Mottley). Also found in Malacca and Sumatra (Jack, Cuming, Korthals) 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Tag. LXIX. 
Nepenthes villosa, HE a... 
i i . Fruit. ; 5. Fo f 
Fig. 1. d raceme; nat. size. Fig. 2. d flower. Fig. 3. 9 flower. Fig. 4. Fruit. Fig 
under surface of lid :—all magnified. 
å : here—the 
å Khasia Mountains are those meant 
* From the Circar Mountains in N.E. Bengal, Bot. Mag. Le. The % 
Circars being in the Peninsula. 
